Deadly airstrike hits Syrian bakery

More than 60 people have been killed in a Syrian military air strike on a bakery in a rebel-held town, monitors say, as peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi launched a new bid to resolve the brutal 21-month conflict.

In one of the deadliest incidents of the conflict, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday's strike hit a bakery in Halfaya in the central province of Hama, killing more than 60 people and wounding at least 50.

Many of the wounded were in critical condition, the monitoring group said, adding the death toll was likely to rise.

A bakery in Halfaya was hit by a Syrian military air strike. Photo: Reuters

"In Halfaya, regime forces bombarded a bakery and committed a massacre that killed dozens of people, including women and children, and wounded many others," said the Local Co-ordination Committees, a grassroots network of activists.